A man was killed when he was sucked underneath a street sweeper in Florida. Local news outlets report that a street sweeper operator was killed early Saturday after officials say he became entangled while trying to clear something from the machine at a parking lot in the Mandarin neighborhood of Jacksonville.

Flash flooding along Southwest College Road in Ocala Saturday afternoon caused waist-deep flooding in the Shady Oaks Shopping Center parking lot. At the same time a sinkhole swallowed a car across the highway in the parking lot of the Checkers restaurant.

Although a major hurricane hasn’t unleashed its full fury on Florida in more than a decade, property insurance rates are climbing statewide because of another kind of storm — claims abuse.

Nearly four years after a former Arena Football League player was injured while trying to regain a roster spot with the Orlando Predators, a state appeals court Tuesday rejected his workers’ compensation insurance claim.

Nearly 6.9 million homes along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in the United States are at potential risk of damage from hurricane storm surge inundation, according to CoreLogic’s 2017 Storm Surge Report.

Severe thunderstorms early Tuesday evening left a trail of damage and debris across the Clay County area, including 45 damaged homes, emergency operations center officials said.

There was no air conditioning and parts of the roof were gone, so the mosquitoes would swarm in on those hellishly hot nights. People had their guns ready for the looters. There were also monkeys, llamas, cougars and who knows what else roaming around.

Although a major hurricane hasn’t unleashed its full fury on Florida in more than a decade, property insurance rates are climbing statewide because of another kind of storm — claims abuse.

Forecasters say the Atlantic could see another above-normal hurricane season in 2017. Forecasters predicted 11-17 named storms, five to nine hurricanes and two to four hurricanes could be "major" with sustained winds of at least 111 mph.

VIP Auto Glass Inc. (VIP) and Class members are seeking class certification in a Florida lawsuit against Geico General Insurance Company for allegedly violating the state’s law by underpaying auto glass shops not affiliated with Safelite Retail facilities or participants in the Safelite Network.

The untimely death of a famous rock front man has highlighted the need to insure against the truly unfortunate in the entertainment industry.

A worker was critically injured Wednesday from a possible lightning strike near an Ocean Breeze Park construction site, according to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office and Fire Rescue.

Motorcycle thefts are on the rise, and California, for the second year in a row, is the top state for stolen bikes. The annual theft report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau shows bike thefts rose 2% nationally in 2016.

A federal judge has ordered 15 people to pay more than $130 million in restitution for their roles in a massive insurance fraud that was based in South Florida.

Rescue crews took six people to the hospital after, officials said, a fishing boat crashed into a dock near Normandy Shores, injuring most of the passengers on board, Saturday evening.